Masters of theory Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics
- 2. The reform coach
- 3. A mathematical world on paper
- 4. Exercising the student body
- 5. Routh's men
- 6. Making sense of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in mid-Victorian Cambridge
- 7. Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter, and the principle of relativity
- 8. Transforming the field
- 9. Through the convex looking glass
- Epilogue : training, continuity, and change.